In Dion Vigne’s bopping “North Beach,” a five-minute 1958 film that exults in the textures, colors and motion of the neighborhood, a kaleidoscope of fast-cut images and patterns fills the screen.
This edited Ektachrome home movie with titles documents a 1959 street fair, upper Grant Avenue, San Francisco--the center of Beat culture. The film includes shots of filmmaker Dion Vigne and his wife Loreon, artist and occultist Marjorie Cameron and her daughter Crystal, artist Wallace Berman and...
